COUTURE DE FORCE
Feb 17, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS JESSICA-BELLE GREER PHOTOGRAPHY PETER LINDBERGH
France’s bad boy of fashion Jean Paul Gaultier has always loved a party. That’s why when he decided to retire on the eve of his 50th anniversary in the industry, he staged his own funeral for everyone to enjoy.
The provocateur’s last Paris haute couture showcase, spring 2020, opened with Boy George’s stirring rendition of ‘Back to Black’ as six masked pallbearers danced a sleek black coffin onto the stage. Supermodels of shows past, Erin O’Connor, Estelle Lefébure, Yasmin Le Bon and more, congregated in veiled mourning as Karlie Kloss, wearing a wreath bearing the words ‘fashion for life’ in French, creaked opened the casket.
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